The McEntaffer team stands in front of the OGRESS sounding rocket during its spin balance test.
The McEntaffer team stands in front of the Off-plane Grating Rocket for Extended Source Spectroscopy, or OGRESS, sounding rocket during its spin balance test. This NASA-funded rocket launch will carry new technology to peer at the X-rays streaming from a supernova remnant called the Cygnus Loop, and assess what the debris from this 20,000-year-old explosion is made of. Credit: NASA/OGRESS